H. G. Wells Quotes
I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.
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We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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I always felt if you were going to be successful, make sure you get good people. You win with great players. Coaches don't win games. Players win games.
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Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life.
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If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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The original idea before Mint was a life and goal planning system I called Carpe Viva. The idea was that all of life's goals, from buying a house, getting an MBA, or learning Spanish could be quantified in both time and money.
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
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Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.
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I think romance is anything honest. As long as it's honest, it's so disarming.
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Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
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I do not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain."
